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For the past twenty minutes there have a been a small band of birds outside my window, mind you, my closed window, who have been singing their hearts out. Singing the same notes, over and over and over and over again at levels that are making my ears hurt. I opened the window and yelled at them to shut up. They flew off only to return a few minutes later and resume singing. One of them sounds like a car alarm. (Probably a mockingbird imitating a car alarm.)

They are giving me a headache.

So, my question to you, when was the last time nature invaded your space and what did you do?

I live in the countryside. Nature is everywhere, all the time. Yesterday, I looked down and a spider was crawling over my clothes. An eviction notice was immediately dispatched.

Stuff like that has never bothered me. And if it did, I'd just remind myself that we are the ones invading nature's space, not the other way around.

That said, perhaps you could put on some music to drown out birds' song? Or maybe move to another room until they are done? Earplugs are also an alternative, but those can be pretty uncomfortable.

I am doing work on a desktop. Kind of hard to lug it around.

And I can't think of me as invading nature's space because I am an animal too. (Sure, a human but still classified as an animal.) Therefore, I am a part of nature. Those birds are nothing more than noisy neighbors. I should call the bird police to tell them to keep it down.

There are stupid birds living in our wall RIGHT NOW. The jerks come in through this hole and you can hear them in the bathroom.

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Also growing up we lived in the country, so it was not unusual for snakes and such to get into our house.

Wow, you've got me. Mine are just noisy neighbors. You've got squatters!

Re: SHUT UP, NATURE!

kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 00:13 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2013-05-28 00:18 (UTC) - Expand

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 00:34 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2013-05-28 01:12 (UTC) - Expand

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 01:13 (UTC) - Expand

MOSQUITOES.

I made this the other day. Hopefully it works.

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf22399231.tip.html

UGH, having a buzzing mosquito in your room when there's no wind and you're trying to go to sleep is the WORST.

Ants. Ants everywhere.

We called an exterminator.

We had a carpenter ant problem a couple of years ago. So gross. We called an exterminator, but every spring a few come back. Not nearly as many thankfully, but next spring I think we need to call a better exterminator. :P

We use Terro - works a treat and is totally safe for non-ants. Only works with sweet-attracted ants, though.

My old apartment was a basement unit, and in the spring and summer, we'd get spiders at least once a week. Fat-bodied, big as a quarter with the legs included, brown spiders. Nothing dangerous, but holy god did they freak me out whenever they skittered by. I always killed them because our cat chases spiders and has a tendency to cripple them before he finally eats the damn things, so I consider it a mercy killing. I don't mind spiders in general, because most of the time I can just ignore that they're there, but when I see them in my house, I freak out and I can't be comfortable until I know it's either dead or gone. And these were too fast to try and catch.

There are also a couple sparrows that have made their home in the store I work at. It's a big box warehouse-type building, so they generally stay up in the ceiling beams and whatnot, but they'll occasionally poke around the garden area with all the bird feed. The noise they make isn't so much of a problem - it's the fact that they shit on everything. We do a pretty good job keeping the place relatively clean, but occasionally, you'll find the top chair in a stack of patio chairs just peppered with bird shit. It's pretty gross :/ There's not much we can do about it, though - nobody's sure whether the birds are actually trapped or if they just like it in there, because they've tried to get rid of them before only to have them come back.

Whenever spiders get in here I murder them. Sometimes I freak out first. Fuck spiders.

Same here. Sometimes I even yell "SPAWN OF UNGOLIANT!" as I repeatedly smite them with my shoe or whatever blunt instrument is closest at hand.

Re: SHUT UP, NATURE!

dethtoll - 2013-05-28 01:21 (UTC) - Expand

I don't really notice the ACTUAL nature anymore due to the nature I've brought inside being so... invasive.

For instance, this morning I was woken up around 5:30 by one of my rabbits deciding to move her litterbox across the room with her teeth. Spent an hour trying to get back sleep, had only just managed it when I woke up again, wasn't sure why, and opened my eyes to see a DIFFERENT bunny's nose right in my face sniffing at me. He'd just leapt onto the bed. And they kept it up for another hour before I could get back to sleep.

Fortunately I find this stuff as amusing as it is annoying. But after living with two rabbits in my bedroom, I'm really not bothered by animal noises from outside.

I lived in an old trailer that was falling apart around my head with skunks living under it, it was infested with roaches, ants, mice, fleas, and black mold. I had mushrooms growing in a shoddily added on room and bathroom I never used, slugs in the bathroom I did use.(I actually miss the slugs, they were pretty cool.) I moved out in September, the place has been torn down now.

Edited 2013-05-28 00:48 (UTC)

So, my question to you, when was the last time nature invaded your space and what did you do?

Dont make evil dead joke.
Dont make evil dead joke.
Dont make evil dead joke.

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I think we're clear.

Rats never get into my apartment (though I see them running around the streets after dark) but we do get mice every now and then. I set up traps to kill them.

Oh, and the other day I found a giant centipede in my sink. Motherfucker's now cozied up in a toilet paper coffin.

Re: SHUT UP, NATURE!

(Anonymous) - 2013-05-28 02:55 (UTC) - Expand

Ugh, birds can be so loud and annoying!

I love on the tenth floor, so not that much nature makes it up here (the pidgeon that sits on the roof cooing and doesn't care about my attempts to shoo it off is pretty damn obnoxious).

I do have a largish brown spider somewhere in my room. I know he isn't dangerous and I like spiders, so I let him stay. I named him Gandalf and I end up smiling whenever I see him.

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siliconsara - 2013-05-28 06:35 (UTC) - Expand

I also live in a very rural area.

RN we have swallows in the range hood fan exhaust. That's fine, though, they only did real damage last year, when they decided the bathroom fan exhaust was better.

When I was growing up, the gable room of my attic-ked house had Constant. Wolf. Spiders. I got used to them, but the one the size of a small basketball freaked me out AND needed one parent wielding a straw broom and essentially clubbing it over the back of the head before it went down for the count.

Then there was the year the municipality decided to upgrade all the culverts and every single house along the highway (including ours) had mice by the HUNDREDS. That. That was. That was Not Fun.

That said, when I was living in a large urban centre, and the rents were being jacked so sky-high, everyone on the floor of the apartment building I was living in moved out, so my apartment was literally the only tenanted habitation on the floor. Ever seen the movie Joe's Apartment? So. Yeah.

This morning, at 5am like clockwork >:[ It batters at our windows trying to get in.
It's annoying because we bought a fake hawk to hang that hasn't deterred it at all, neither does having the blinds down, fake predator birds in the window and yelling/waving our arms.

Some kind of honey eater I think.

Re: SHUT UP, NATURE!

(Anonymous) - 2013-05-28 04:41 (UTC) - Expand

This happened once when I spent the night at my grandma's house. I went outside, found a very large rock, and chucked it at the tree. The birds flew away and I was happy, but it didn't last. :(

One of the places I live is a village. (Or something even smaller than that: six and a half short streets.)
Last year the owls (probably from our own (or our neighbour's) attic) decimated our chikenflock.
Every year we have the "plum vs. starling" and the "walnut vs. crow" battle. They win. Every time.
We frequently have mice (not in the actual house, but close enough): the common, grey kind, the brown kind with one black stripe along its spine, and something other small grey annoying rodent, that even the cats refuse to hunt/eat/chase.
Two weeks ago, I climbed up to the attic and found at least six small wasp-nests. Next week, when I go home, I have to do something about them, as my mother is allergic. The only problem is that I'm afraid. From all the nature around us at home, the only thing I'm afraid of are wasps.

Mama bird was building a nest in one of the air intake vents. I was not okay with that (once I realized what it was).

Mama bird was delicious.

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